Painter-Larson Academy of Irish Dance

Specialties

Painter Larson Academy of Irish Dance offers Irish dance classes for adults and children in Fullerton. Your dance school for Irish dancing in Orange County, California.

Dances taught: hard shoe and soft shoe dances including jigs, reels, set dances, and group ceili dances

History

Established in 1990.

Larson Academy offers lessons for Beginner Children and Adults ages 3 and up. New classes form at the beginning of each month. Please call for most current registration information or stop by the studio. Shamrocks introduces children to the world of Irish dance music and culture. We focus on attention skills, foot placement, counting, rhythm, memorization and basic motor skills; with parent. (30 min. class). New Beginner Classes focus on learning the stretching routine and how to perform it properly as well as the first two soft shoe dances, the reel and the light jig. We work on foot placement, rhythm and timing. (45 minute class) New Beginner Adult Classes focus on learning the stretching routine and how to perform it properly as well as the first four soft shoe dance. We will also learn ceili dancing (group dances). When the four soft dances have been mastered the adult dancers are integrated into the Children’s Int A class level. (1 hour class)

Meet the Business Owner

Michelle L.

Business Owner

Mrs. Michelle Larson is the principal dance instructor, choreographer, and owner of the Larson Academy of Irish Dance. She currently has two studios in operation with locations in Glendora and Fullerton, California. Mrs. Larson began her dancing career at the age of four and became a Regional, National, and World Championship level dancer. She competed until the age of twenty-​one when she began a professional career in Interior Design. However the love of the dance and the call of the Irish Culture proved too strong and she left her promising career to return in 1990 to her first and true love, a career in Irish Dance. Earning her T.C.R.G. and armed with but a handful of students she quickly grew her school to the bursting point for her little garage studio. With professional studios in two locations in the Southland she now teaches hundreds of children and adults alike to enjoy and cherish the art form of Irish Dancing.